ok, Im being told to go online and find experiments/activities to do on plate tectonics. and no I cant get away with just doing a poster... sadly. the best I could find on search engines is boiling an egg and cracking it.. whoop-de-do. I am trying to figure something out maybe using a big styro-foam bowl, and having something stick/move on the top? Im stuck. yeah..

this should've been easy to figure something out since I was the one who hooked up barbie limbs to a hoola-hoop barbie with wire hangers that I cut and bent up, and had it rotate as a twila-version of the solar system.

Though I hate barbies with a passion... so maybe thats why I came up with that one quickly as an excuse to throw away my little cousins barbies. they freak me out. lol anyways.. any ideas?

"Courage is not always a roar, but sometimes a quite whisper at the end of the night saying 'I will try again tomorrow'"

Wild idea:In a large container put 2 slow moving motors/rolling bands moving in opposite direction [magama convection cells of course] and cover with liquid (as thick as possible) [magma] put floating pieces of styrofoam on the surface [the plaques] of the liquid and look at the plaques collide, slide or whatever will happen. Good luck with that though...

Patrick

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)

Very good question. I would probably use a direct human drive (aka handle) to move the bands just to avoid dealing with electricity and water. As for the band, I would use some thick plastic if possible with some ridges of one sort or another to improve the traction on the liquid. Bubble wrap for example.

I can see 2 rolling pins on some sort of legs with bands of bubble wrap (bubble side out/flat side on the pins) to do the rolling bands. The only problem would probably to find a setup that would fit in the kind of container that you can have access to/easily work with. But I guess in a smaller setting the outside bodies of pens and a few paper clips for the feet and handle should work.

No possibilities of Barbie slaughtering that I can see here though

Patrick

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)